isaiah, book of

Isaiah, book of — Although there is no MS even the oldest, among the Dead Sea scrolls which in any way suggests that the book can be divided among several authors of different dates, it has been modern critical opinion that the book cannot be a unity. The reasons… …   Dictionary of the Bible

Isaiah, Book of — ▪ Old Testament also spelled  Isaias,         one of the major prophetical writings of the Old Testament. The superscription identifies Isaiah as the son of Amoz and his book as “the vision of Isaiah . . . concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the… …   Universalium

Book of Isaiah — This article is about the Book of Isaiah. For the Jewish prophet, see Isaiah. Hebrew Bible …   Wikipedia

Book of Mormon anachronisms — There are a variety of words and phrases in the Book of Mormon that are considered anachronistic as their existence in the text of the Book of Mormon is at odds with known linguistic patterns, archaeological findings, or known historical… …   Wikipedia

ISAIAH — (Heb. יְשַׁעְיָה ,יְשַׁעְיָהוּ Salvation of YHWH ), one of the eight books (as the Rabbis and the Masorah count them) of the Nevi im, or Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew canon (see bible , Canon). INTRODUCTION Outside the Book of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Isaiah (disambiguation) — Isaiah is the main character in the Biblical Book of Isaiah.Isaiah can also refer to:*Book of Isaiah, the book of the Bible ascribed to Isaiah *Isaiah of Armenia, Catholicos of Armenia from 775 to 778 *VIA Isaiah a 64 bit computer processor from… …   Wikipedia

ISAIAH, ASCENSION OF — ISAIAH, ASCENSION OF, early Christian apocalypse, containing the Jewish apocryphon the martyrdom of isaiah . The aggadah about Isaiah s violent death was already known at the beginnings of Christianity (see Acts 8: 34). Thus the Jewish apocryphon …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Isaiah — () and Huldah (; see ); and again, twenty years later, when he had already entered on his office, by the invasion of Tiglath Pileser and his career of conquest. Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co operate with the kings of Israel… …   Wikipedia

Isaiah Oke — (born c. 1940) was a Nigerian shaman called a “babalowa” who eventually rejected sorcery and became the subject of a 1989 autobiographical book titled Blood Secrets , as told to Joe Wright. Early years Isaiah Oke was born in the village of Ils… …   Wikipedia

ISAIAH, MARTYRDOM OF — ISAIAH, MARTYRDOM OF, one of the source documents discerned by scholars in the Ascension of Isaiah (see ), relating Isaiah s persecution and eventual martyr s death at the hands of manasseh , king of Judah. From the first publication in 1819 of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

ISAIAH BEN ABRAHAM — (d. 1723), rabbi and kabbalist, grandson of david b. samuel ha levi . He wrote Ba er Heitev, a commentary on the Shulḥan Arukh, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, which the title page describes as a digest of the legal decisions of all the early and later halakhic… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism